Chief of Seers

List of contents

Preface, Three Appreciations of Cyril Aldred, The Bibliography of Cyril Aldred, New Evidence for Liliform Capitals in Egypt, An Elite Image, An Early Twelfth Dynasty Sculpture, Striding Glazed Steatite Figures of Amenhotep III: an Example of the Purposes of Minor Arts, Some Remarks on the Louvre Statues of Sepa (A 36 and 37) and Nesames (A 38), The Pyramid of Seila and its Place in the Succession of Snofru's Pyramids, Missing Parts, Several Objects, and some Aspects of the Art of the Third Intermediate Period, Two Iconographic Questions: Who and When? Relief Styles of the Nebhepetre Montuhotep Funerary Temple Complex, 'The Very Best Artist', Memoranda on Craftsmen at the Ramesseum, The MalqataJEl-Amarna Blues: Favourite Colours of Kings and Gods, Un dignitaire de l'heureuse Memphis au Moyen Empire: Ptah-ounenef, Descriptive Notes from the Valley, The Locusts on the Daggers of Ahmose, Jewellery Fragments from the Tomb of Nefertari in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Two Scribes and a King of Dynasty XVIII, A Sleeping Gazelle, Howard Carter's Collection of Egyptian and Classical Antiquities, The 'Feminization' of the Male Figure in New Kingdom Two-dimensional Art, Vulture and Cobra at the King's Brow, Ramses II admirait Sesostris Ief Eleni VASSILIK, Egyptian Bronze Sculpture before the Late Period, A Remarkable Gem in Paris

About the author

Elizabeth Goring, Nicholas Reeves, John Ruffle

Summary

Written in memory of the late Cyril Aldred, one of the world's most highly regarded experts in Egyptian art, the 30 original and thought-provoking essays in this volume, by an international team of leading scholars, are a major contribution to Egyptian art history, to Egyptology and to art history in general.

Product details

• Authors: Goring, Goring, Elizabeth Goring, Elizabeth Reeves Goring, Nicholas Reeves
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Goring (Editor), Goring Elizabeth (Editor), Nicholas Reeves (Editor), Reeves Nicholas (Editor), John Ruffle (Editor), Ruffle John (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2015
• EAN: 9781138861220
• ISBN: 978-1-138-86122-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology